Quotes About Contemplation

Sometimes you're just not in the manager's thoughts.

I'm very much an observer and a conduit of thoughts and ideas.

Meditating has taught me to sit with my thoughts, my feelings, and just observe them.

Running is something you can do and be alone in your thoughts, and I like that. Maybe I've been a runner my whole life.

Think your own thoughts.

Most of my thoughts, you couldn't print.

Cómo fue Dios quedándose sordo y mudo y ausente, irremediablemente atrás como la aurora?

The time will come when it will disgust you to look in the mirror.

think about all the people who'd sat in these pews before me, and the many prayers that had been sent heavenward.

attempting to martial his thoughts.

I turned on my back and floated": The Drowning Pool

Funny things tend not to happen to me. I am not a natural comic. I need to think about things a lot before I can be even remotely amusing.

Without silence, we will not get any closer to knowing who we are before God.

knowledge of our own mortality

Ler rapidamente aquilo que o autor levou anos para pensar é um desrespeito. [...] Há frases que resumem uma vida. Por isso é preciso ler vagarosamente, prestando atenção nas idéias que se escondem nos silêncios que há entre as palavras.

Parte da nossa estupidez é a incontinência verbal, a constante ejaculação de palavras – quando a verdadeira sabedoria seria fazer silêncio, parar os pensamentos, para ouvir a pregação das estrelas, dos peixes, das aves, das plantas.

Na minha infância nasce uma infância ardente como o álcool. Eu me assentava nos caminhos da noite. Escutava o discurso das estrelas e o da árvore. Agora a indiferença neva a noite na minha alma (Vincent Huidobro, citado por Bachelard)

Sofri a dor da solidão e da rejeição. Mas foi esse espaço de solidão na minha alma que me fez pensar coisas que de outra forma eu não teria pensado.

Some ideas you have to chew on, then roll them around a lot, play with them before you can turn them into funky science fiction.

Today, how do we intend to hear the heartbeat of God? What will we do to make it possible for us to hear God's comforting, peacegiving, and guiding voice? Rueben P. Job

and as she stood on the Ashford platform waiting for the small train to come in, she seemed already separated from the people around her. Tomorrow I shall not be among you anymore; not of you but mysteriously still with you, thought Philippa. As Lady Abbess of Brede had said, "People think we renounce the world. We don't. We renounce its ways but we are still very much in it and it is very much in us.

Let the waters settle and you will see the moon and the stars mirrored in your own being.

There are a thousand ways to kneel and kiss the earth.

Try another way of looking. Try you looking and the whole universe seeing.